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Gerald M. Ackerman, Professor Emeritus, Author, Lecturer Born 1928. |
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Gerald M. Ackerman, Professor Emeritus, Author, Lecturer Born 1928. |
Education . B.A. Berkeley, 1952. Five semesters in the art
historical seminar of the
Professional Career. Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College, 1958-64. Assistant Professor,
Stanford University, 1964-70.
Associate Professor, Professor, and Chairman of the
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The Dahesh Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the second edition of the popular artist’s manual, the Charles Bargue Drawing Course, compiled and annotated by Gerald Ackerman will be available at the end of October. Sold out for the past year, the drawing course has influenced and inspired artists for over a century. Available in a handsome hardcover edition for $95.00, this important and beautiful book is sure to move fast. To pre-order your copy today, please contact us at museumshop@daheshmuseum.org. |
THE French edition IS still available from the publisher:
ACR Édition Internationale
20 ter, rue de Bezons
Les Poissons 1196
F 92400
Tel: 01 47 88 14 92. Fax: 01 43 33 38 81
soft cover, 75.00 euros plus postage.
At last a DVD demonstrating SIGHT-SIZE TECHNIQUE. Read Review by G M Ackerman
Cast Drawing: Materials and Sight-Size Technique. Classical Ventures, DVD, 2:30 minutes. Ca $89.00. Order at www.classicalventures.com
Recent Publication in print and
available.
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More on Graydon Parrish |
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Charles Bargue and J. L. Gérôme,
Drawing
Course.
A volume of
324 pages, in a format 10 x 11 inches. 336 illustratons in color and
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The book is a complete reprint of the fabled but rare
Drawing Course
(“Cours de Dessin”)of
Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gérôme, published in Paris in the 1860s and
1870s. For most of the next half-century,
this set of nearly 200 masterful lithographs was copied by art students
worldwide before they attempted to draw from a live model. This book will be valuable to a wide range of
artists, students, art historians and collectors, even as it introduces them to
the hitherto-neglected master, Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course is
separated into three sections, in an ascending order of difficulty. The first section consists of lithographs by
Bargue after casts of sculptures, mostly antique examples that present the
structure of the human body with remarkable clarity and intelligence. The second part contains the lithographs that
Bargue made after master drawings by Renaissance and modern artists, and the
third section almost 60 exemplary drawings of nude male models. Experienced artists will recognize the skill and insight with which Bargue solved problems of drawing from nature; they will want to copy these plates to sharpen their professional skills. For art students, the Drawing Course is a practical introduction to realistic drawing based on the observation of nature, a course |
blissfully free of the usual charts and schemata
requiring memorization and often productive of stultification. For art historians, the Drawing Course
documents the longstanding tradition of accurate draftsmanship prized by the
late nineteenth-century figure painters who stood at the convergence of classicism
and realism. This volume concludes with a
biography of Charles Bargue and a preliminary catalogue of his paintings,
accompanied by reproductions of works both located and lost. Bargue started his career as a lithographer
reproducing the drawings of commercial illustrators for a popular market in
comic, sentimental and erotic subjects.
By working with Gérôme, and by preparing the plates for this Drawing
Course, Bargue was transformed into a master painter, equipped with the
skills to match his taste, talent and ideas.
He became a master of telling details and exquisite tonal harmonies. Gerald M. Ackerman’s
collaborator on this volume is Graydon Parrish, the
figure painter well known for his widely reproduced allegory, Remorse,
Despondence, and Acceptance of an Early Death(1997-1999, |
Paintings by Bargue: | ||
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1. “An academic problem: The idea of the perfect
academy,” in Gerd Lindner and Rosario Fabrizio, editors, Realism
revisited. The Florence Academy of Art {Bad
Available from the
Am Schlachtberg 9
D 06567 Bad Frankenhausen
Tel: (034671) 619-0. Fax: (034671) 6 29 50
2. Editor, with
Peter Bougie, ”The Gammell-Ackerman letters. A
correspondence of 1967-1969.” Classical Realism Journal, vol. I, no. 1, pp18-33.
Available
from the
3. “The Heroic
accomplishments of R. H. Ives Gammell and The Future
of American figure Painting,” in Elizabeth Ives Hunter, editor, Transcending Vision: R. H. Gammell 1893-1981; pp81-113.
Available
from the
4. La Vie et l’Oeuvre de Jean-Léon
Gérôme. (
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Hardback monograph” biography and
catalogue raisonné of his works, over 180 colored
illustrations, 600 b/w. [The English edition
of 1986 is out of print.]
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5. Jean-Léon Gérôme. His Life, His Work. [Les Orientalistes,
no. 4]. (ACR Éditions:
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Soft-bound pocket book condensation of the biography of the larger monograph, without the catalogue raisonné; many illustrations in color. Available in America from www.budplant.com for $29.95. Available from ACR Édition
International, |
6. American Orientalists. (ACR Éditions:
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Large quarto, cloth bound. Over 70 monographs on American Realist painters who visited and painted the Near and Middle East. Cloth bound, richly illustrated in color. Available in America from www.budplant.com for $125.00. Available in English and in French from
ACR Édition International, |
7. Les
Orientalistes de l’École britannique. (ACR Éditions internationale:
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Monographic coverage of over 1025 British Realists who visited and painte the Near and Middle East. Cloth bound, richly illustrated in color. Available in French only from ACR Édition
International, |
8. "The Bargue-Gérôme Cours de dessin: Goupil & Cie attacks a national problem," in Gérôme & Goupil: Art and Enterprise, [New York: Dahesh Museum] 2000, pp55-66; softbound.
Available at the Dahesh Museum, New York City, 212-759-0606,
ext. 235.
